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Winchester committee agrees to pursue vape detectors in high school bathrooms
Summary
After months of internal work and reports from school staff, the Winchester School Committee gave consensus to pursue installing wireless vape detectors in Winchester High School bathrooms and to work with the Select Board and town on funding and installation details.
The Winchester School Committee on Jan. 9 gave general consent for school staff to proceed with planning the installation of wireless vape detectors in multistall restrooms at Winchester High School and to coordinate with the Select Board and town offices on funding and next steps.
School administrators and community partners described repeated incidents of vaping in bathroom stalls, said the detectors would provide time-stamped alerts to administrators, and argued detectors would reduce the number of hidden locations where students can vape. “It removes 14 spaces in our building where students can vape undetected,” said Anna Paradise, dean of students at Winchester High School, who led the school’s presentation with Dot Butler of the Coalition For A Safer Community.
Paradise and Butler told the…
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